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Soap lovers, look out: Harvard’s first and only student-made soap opera, “Ivory Tower,” has undergone a major face-lift in preparation for its third season, which is set to debut at www.ivorytowersoap.com this Saturday. Last season’s cast is, for the most part, gone. “The premise is that every season, there will be a new cast of characters,” says the show’s Chair of Marketing and Public Relations, Stevie N. Degroff ’06. She says fans should only...
...until now, Bose's Quiet Comfort 2 headphones have reigned in the land of noise cancellation. They're still king, but they're locked in an ivory tower, at the rarely discounted price of $300. Sony's MDR-NC50s do the job, and can be found for much much less than its $200 list price. A Froogle Search turns up pricing, from recognizable stores, as low as $125. (If you always hit the lowest bidder, no matter who it might be, you can get it cheaper still...
...constricting clothes of the day, stroll, picnic or fish. Rousseau omits no unromantic detail: railway bridges, factories, chimneys, piers. In the stormy View of Malakoff (1908), telegraph poles and cables arch over houses, trees and passersby. Sometimes the sky is a background for hot-air balloons, biplanes, the Eiffel Tower, even zeppelins, as in Ivry Quay (circa 1907). Rousseau's people were not always successful. Hands look like kilos of sausages, and some of his portraits verge on the grotesque - the child in Boy on the Rocks (1895-97) resembles a stuffed toy perched uncomfortably on some small mountain peaks...
...there are more dorms at Harvard? Like, outside the River? Neither did we. Here are some ways to get there and things to do once you’re done walking: 1. Walk to Currier and eat in the dining hall. 2. Walk to Pforzheimer and visit the Bell Tower. If you’re lucky, you just might get cranberry juice spilled on your favorite pants! 3. Walk to Hilles and take out a book. From your backpack. Then read it. 4. Walk to Quad Bikes and rent a bike. Why would you need a bike if everything...
...knows what makes one of those like Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53. After all, who better to riff salient on strength, courage, and action than someone who’s been able to dedicate himself so virulently to ivory tower contemplation...